Having returned to the New Hampshire from Clearwater, I wanted to
comment on the legal victory and the reciprocal restraining orders
handed down by Judge Penick in St. Petersburg on December 2nd.

Firstly, the open hearing before Judge Penick and his final decision
were fair. That is all we ever really want from the Justice system in
this country. Everybody won on this point.

Secondly, CoS Inc., its Office of Special Affairs and Mr. Howd were
shut down in their violent and harassive attempts to curtail free
speech against the abusive and deceptive practices of CoS Inc. This is
a temporary injunction in name only against CoS Inc. because their
actions which caused this injunction against them are permanently on
the record and will be used by others in the future when CoS are again
tempted to suppress freedom.

Thirdly, I was appropriately and temporarily restrained until
May 30, 2000 from being within 10 feet of 17 CoS Inc. properties in
Clearwater, Florida.

Finally, most of us on ARS came here because we were advocates of
free speech and vigorously opposed the heavy handed tactics used by
CoS Inc. for forty plus years to destroy our rights and the rights of
anyone opposed to CoS Inc.

The Legal Victory on December 2nd in St. Petersburg, Florida went in
favor of the free speech guaranteed to us by the First Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution. That was the victory we all won in court last
week. The loser was the organization we all know to be opposed to free
speech when it is speech critical of their abusive and deceptive
practices --- The Church of Scientology.

"That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely,
to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write
upon the opinions of others"